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Friday
Feb272009

Fear And Stupid

DateFriday, February 27, 2009 at 08:36PM
This is just sad: via The New York Times:
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Amazon Backs Off Text-to-Speech Feature in Kindle


By BRAD STONE


Amazon announced today it will let publishers decide whether they want the new Kindle e-book device to read their books aloud.


The text-to-speech feature allows Kindle owners to have books read to them in a male or female computerized voice. The president of the Author




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Agreed. Amazon bent over for these people. They should have told 'em to F off.

February 28, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterSean

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